The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-01-18
UGLY Mr.. BOWSER.
His Patient Wife Tells How He Treats the
Baby and Herself.

His Patient Wife Tells How He Treats the
Baby and Herself.
And there are other things about MIR.
Bowser which the public ought to
know, and which ! am determined to
hold up as solemn warning to such
Young women as may be thinking of
marriage.
For one thing. Bowser doesn't treat
the baby right. For the first few weeks
he made a great fuss over it, and one
little saueal at midnight would bounce
him out of bed, ready to 60 for doc
tor, without taking time TO pull his
boots on. Alas what change! The
other night poor baby had the collie or
some other ailment, and it cried steadily
from eleven to twelve without Bowser
moving an eyelId. Then | reused him
up to build a fire and make pepper
mint sling, and even before he got out
of bed he said .'thunderr' and called
the baby a ''thingr' demonstrated
certainly 1 did-and he turned on me
with:
Al know what the young 'un needs!
He wants knocking down with crow
bar three or four times to take the
ugly out of him."
I've lived with Bowser a good many
wears. but never knew him in his true
light until that night. He went of
down stairs, built a roaring fire, heated
the tea kettle full of water, and he
brought that up in one hand, the sugar
box in the other, and the peppermint
in his pocket. and sat them down on
the floor and said:
There. now, either cure or kill him,
but don't bother me any more.
| began TO tell him what L thought
of him, but he went TO sleep and
choked me of. The next morning he
tickled baby's feet and tried TO lessen
the enormity of his crime In our eyes,
but we were firm.
knew Just as well as could be when
that child was only two weeks old that
Bowser would give me trouble. Be
cause he can run a lawn-mower he
argues that be can run baby, and
though | tried TO make him see that
there was a wide difference between
the two | couldn't succeed, except TO
gain a grudging admission that baby
didn't run on two wheels and work
with a ratchet. How did he weigh the
little darling? Held him up by one
leg, same as YOU would a rabbit, and
n took two days for the blood TO gel
back to his toes againi The chile
wasn't four weeks old when Bowser be
Gan to look for teeth. and because h'
couldn't find any he turned on me ant
said / would probably have an oitel
from some side-ShOw TO travel with th'
monstrosityl When baby was 81!
weeks old BOwser came home one
afternoon and insisted on seeing hin
walk. He said he walked at three
, weeks, and his father at two, and tina
if baby didn't begin then he was NJ
good. | tried TO jam'some sense int
, his head. but in vain, and he had
fling about my family being how-legge,
, and spineless. One afternoon L Ief
baby asleep and Bowser to watch him
,, In a few minutes the child opened ii
eyes. and Bowser remarked:
1.-The old woman has gone over I
: Blacks to see about a salve to cur
YOUR sore toe. and if YOU make IN
any trouble I'll warm your jacket goo
! and stout"'
l The baby began to cry. What bah
wouldn' t when threatened in that cold
: blooded manner?
: .'Shut uprn shouted Bowser.
Baby wouldn't.
"Look-a-herer' continued Bowsel
I as he spit on his hands. you'll eith6
u dry up or leave my house! don't il
tend to have any one around here VIII
Z won't obey all reasonable command
!. If you 90 out, you'll never come back
neverr
l. The baby almost went into convu
Z sions. and all that saved its life was Il
: fact that returned while BOwser w;
e hunting the cook 10 ask her TO be
u witness to the fact that baby left Il
e house rather than obey the parent
command
I The child was scarcely three mOntl
y old when Bowser wanted TO put hi
: into pantalOOns and boots, and becau
, | objected he roared out:
= -Oh. well, make fool of him If VI
u will, but | wash my hands of the who
- AFFAIR."
When the boy was five months oil
u Bowser sat down one day and ask,
~ him his age. name, etc, and when Il
90 dear thing put up its lip and began
u cry-as what baby wouldn't VIII,
" Jumped on in that manner-his faith
shook his great big fist at him and e
claimed:
OF Young man, this is the third
ne fourth time YOU have impudently def
OF me in nv own house. and L give "
M notice that it is the last"
ID Last night l had the minister ov
n talking with Bowser, but | dol
ne suppose it did him much good. as
suddenly heard him slap his fist in
his hand and protest:
.But the idea of young un waki
up in the middle of the night to hoV
IN Why not do it all in the day-tin
20 when he's nothing else on hand!
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